Sleeping Teams

One of the probably strangest things to come out of our trip was the idea of "sleeping teams".
The first night we started with all of the children in one hotel bed and Jim and me in the other. Shortly after the lights went out Josie switched beds to be between mommy and daddy.

The second night we started with all three children in one bed and Jim and me in the other. Some time around 2am Doug had something upsetting him and I actually brought him to our bed.

The third night about the time I finished saying "Josie stay in your own space" since Doug and Andy were complaining...I felt Josie pushing in between Jim and I. Then Doug swapped beds and Jim went to sleep with Andy where there was more room and suddenly we had sleeping teams.

Each night the idea was that each bed would get points so that it was a contest. The bed with the first person to fall asleep would get points. The bed with the person who slept the longest in the morning would get points. Did we actually keep points? No...but it all sounds good to 4 year olds.

Now that we are home the kids are complaining that they want to be on sleeping teams again. Last night we tried to convince Doug and Andy that they had moved up to the more challenging "synchronized sleeping" competition where they were each in their own bed.